society

Definition

  • noun: people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values
  • noun: companionship or association with one's fellows
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: company, companionship, fellowship

Examples

  • That kind of behavior isn't allowed in 'polite society'. [=among people of the middle and upper classes who speak and behave in a polite way]

  • These problems affect only a small segment of 'society'. [=only a small number of people]

  • after 10 years in prison, he has 'paid his debt to society' and is a free man.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) No, I went round to work and my young mistress thus I did bespeak 'Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star, this must not be'. And then I precepts gave her That she should lock herself from his society, admit no messengers, receive no tokens Which done, she took the fruits of my advise (..)
    2015 Hamlet